Project: RSpec Rails 2.0

Publisher: RSpec

do not render views

By default, controller specs do not render views. This allows you specify
which view template an action should try to render regardless of whether or
not the template compiles cleanly.

NOTE: unlike rspec-rails-1.x, the template must exist.

Scenarios

expect template that is rendered by controller action (passes)

Given

a file named "spec/controllers/widgets_controller_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"

describe WidgetsController do
  describe "index" do
    it "renders the index template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("index")
      response.body.should == ""
    end
    it "renders the widgets/index template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("widgets/index")
      response.body.should == ""
    end
  end
end

When

I run "rspec ./spec"

Then

the output should contain "2 examples, 0 failures"

expect template that is not rendered by controller action (fails)

Given

a file named "spec/controllers/widgets_controller_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"

describe WidgetsController do
  describe "index" do
    it "renders the 'new' template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("new")
    end
  end
end

When

I run "rspec ./spec"

Then

the output should contain "1 example, 1 failure"

Last published almost 7 years ago by dchelimsky.

do not render views

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